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Iam at my wits end with sky poker now,how hard is it to maintain a poker site? have played DYM all day today and since around 6pm today sky poker has decided that something to do with adobe means that it desnt want to let me play my poker tables and instead makes my computer run slowly and finally when it does let me on the table im done to nearl no chips at all.
Now im not normally a moaner but i am absolutely disgusted an think its disgraceful that that can happen when people have money on the line?
I have attempted to play 5 £5 DYM tody and have not layed a single hand on some of these tables!!! This is totally unacceptable and myself and my partner have decided that we shall be taking out bankroll and business elsewhere on the internet.
Do any of the sky poker staff have anything to say on this matter at all? Is there anything that can be done? some sort of godwill gesture, god forbid they find it in their hearts to partially refund me?
disgraceful and pathetic,
a very unhappy due to be ex-customer
I really like sky poker its fun the community is great and banter there are a few little things that could be ironed out in my eyes to make it a more reckonised poker room like ok we have the open and the bounty hunters for £11 buy in at 9pm every night with guaranteed prize pools but alot of uk players cannot start a tournament at 9pm which isnt going to finish until midnight due to work and fammilies etc etc. i think if sky poker ran 2 or 3 mtts with £1000 or more with buy ins of less than £15 would attract alot of players aslong as these guaranteed tournaments are scheluded at reasonable times ie- 1 at 7pm with £1000 guaranteed and like a £500-700 guaranteed at 3pm every day and then the 9pm televised tournament every night i think would attract alot more players onto this site what everyone else think?
+ Better hand history tools
+ Bigger blind level at £50/100 Double your moneys - 10 Minutes
+ More "higher" buy-in tournaments - £30 - 200 as currently thiers 2 a month
+ Re-Buy tournaments
+ Omaha introduced
+ Downloadable client with adjustable tables the user decides upon
+ A time bank for the bigger tournaments but i guess all will have to be done
Just a few suggestions but on the plus side i'd like to say you have come along way since sky first opened up
Or would i?
Sharkscope:
Further on the subject of hand history. It would be a great feature to be able to see your own manhattan graph on completed MTTs.
If players want more time (some suggest Timeouts) then play more deepstacks. Theres plenty of time to think.
If you want improvements to the site I can supply a List. Start by making it easier to get into Tournaments and Sit & Go by getting rid of superfluous adverts for BINGO and Blackjack. We are on the POKER site because we like Poker. Adverts for SKY Vegas.etc are just annoying and slow down access to the site. The Poker league, Poker school, press releases should all be in a sub-menu. Also get rid of the POT SIZE column in winning hands and show the hand held by the winner. Sometimes when there are 3 or 4 players all calling on the River, there is no time to work out why someone won a hand.
Can someone tell me why you cannot display the tables in letterbox format? Or with the winning hands always displayed on the left of the table, rather than overlapping.
EX-BUSINESS ANALYST.
Posted by FlashFlush
Buy-ins are for losers!! They also change the thinking of some players who constantly go ALL-IN trying to double up , knowing they can buy-in later if they lose.
Learn to play POKER............then you won't need buy-ins.
extra time bar that u press that gives u 1 60 extra secs time bar to use in mtt,like u can use 10sec here and there, not open mtt lol, skypoker give u just as much of time to muck cards as they do to call? and rebuy mtts or even double chance,bad vaule for your money on sky, for mtts with play,grtds mtts just keep going down,i never seen a poker site to take £50 off a 500 grtd mtt,never seen a site to go down on grtds mtts as much as sky, and what is there to use r player points on? £20 freeroll 250 freeroll 1,000 players in, oh that used to be 1k freeroll
Tables are also slow to load up. Often I open up a cash table only to find the vacant seat has been taken.
Why not start the TV tournies at 8 or 8:30 and then you can make the blind levels a bit longer?
Better tournaments - the tournaments on here are awful - terrible blind structures.
Get some £20 buy-in tournies with decent structures and prize pools - they don't need to be televised if the length of time they take to cover.
Better rakeback deals - criminal how much rake there is on here with tiny rewards.
Better hand history - it's really not helpful at the moment.
Make it compatible with pokertracking software? Not sure how possible this is?
Would also be nice if every hand didn't result in 4 to a flush or 4 to a straight also - not that I'm suggesting anything sinister of course.
Hi,
Move to 10min blind Opens. This will however will a mean longer show and with approx 12.30am finish so maybe have a some 8pm starts mid week. The skill level for 10mins over 7mins is much more and therefore better gameplay.I have a few ideas that would improve the site.
Allow avatars to be uploaded
To be able to use points to buy in to tournaments. Pokerstars have recently done this where you can buy tickets for their big games. It will help improve loyalty and reward players who have earnt lots of points. Eg 500 points for a £10 open or 2000 points for a Primo?
Make the site downloadable, the crashes have improved but it would definately improve this.
Have every Friday night as larger buy in, ie not just a Primo once a month. £50 buy ins and even some £100 or £200. You could have satelites to them all week, it would create some big prize pools. This may even attract more players to the site.
Change the count down timer to a clock ie 5,4,3 etc, it is much easier to monitor than the sliding bar.
The show length restricts this but try and increase countdown time and maybe have an extra time clock to use on tricky decisions.
More Twitter updates. News, winners, tournaments coming up etc. Twitter is perfect for this.
Get Megan Fox as one of the presenters.
What do you think?
Ed
THESWISS makes a lot of sense in his post, here are my thoughts.
More games please for the better player, better blind structures etc. They dont have to be deepstack, but 1500 or 2000 chips with 15 minute blinds would give you some play, variety of buy ins, £10, £20, £50.
Sit N Go tourneys where you win "Tournamant Tokens" for the various buy in ranges, e.g. £10+1, 6 handed 1st= £50 tournament ticket, 2nd=£10, or something along those lines.
Full ring tournamants, 9 or 10 seater, i dont see why all of the tourneys have to be dominated by 6 handed fast structures.
If SPUKT continues next year (please do as i think it's a great idea) have open qualifying tournaments where you can chose the venue you attend. I managed to qualify for nottingham and swansea, but was on my hols when the newcastle and birmingham events were open for qualifying, birmingham being my closest venue! You can then enter as often as you like and win seats to as many venues as you wish.
I understand from the PTP tables that OMAHA is on its way. Are there any plans for STUD etc so eventually we could have some variety on the site, maybe even a HORSE game?
Thats it for now.....play well!
Adam
Posted by twokings
I think you're confusing buy-ins with re-buys.
made a post yesterday regarding any interest in satts to EPT toyrneys on the same basis as "Vegas" satts.
would like to hear any feedback.
cheers
Fitzer.
Posted by BigBluster
Yeh lol, dont know what he was bleating on about!! needs to read the post properly before smacking down peoples ideas
I think there should be more Rebuy MTT, You look at the other sites they all have good fields in them, also a good prize pool at the end. And I also think the site should go back to the Open during the week with the 7 minute blinds.
Much better and more people playing.
Thanks
1. At lower levels have rebuys. Every level up to £2 should be fine. Half the low level tourneys on here are crapshoots anyway, so having rebuys won't make much of a difference.
2. There should be a freeroll every 2 hours and a larger freeroll once a day.
3. Satelites are fine, leave pretty much as is.
4. Televised tourneys need slower blind structures. Start 8-8.30 if necessary.
5. Less reruns of the same guys giving the same advice after every tourney.They are getting stale now.
6. I mentioned my cash game gripe before but I expectnothing to come of it because of juicy money made from rake. I do think however that choice between a £4 game and £10 game should be available.
7. More tourneys full stop.
8 THe richer the tourney, the deeper the blinds.
9. Finally I want a superuser account soI can see everybody elses' hole cards
There are a lot of good things about Sky Poker, but in answer to the question I believe the improvents below would enhance the site:
1. The option of bigger software to fill the computer screen, with an optional download for those more regular players who want it
2. The option of members to uplaod their own images as they do at Pokerstars, with many more additional avatars for those who dont to do this (I'm tired of looking at the same avatars).
3, Double your Money and other sit and gos with 8,9 or 10 players, or even 12,16 etc.
4, For more of the bigger Guaranteed tournaments to start earlier, the late hours prevents many people competing in them.
5, More use of the Poker points such as buy ins or part buy ins for tournaments. I have over 13,000 and do not anticipate ever using them. It is not presently worth it in the small freerolls offered.
6, Improved statistics, particulalry to say how many hands have been played in the tournament or sit and go and how many I have entered.
7, A qualification from a satellite for the SPUK tournament to tcount for any of the forthcoming venues (preferably in the North West at some time).
I also like the transfer money feature of pokerstars and fulltilt.
However...the biggest problem on Sky Poker is collusion and the ease it can be done. A downloadable software should be developed and launched with enough press so that all players know it will be compulsary by a certain date. I think this would help sky move forward in security terms. At current it is EASY to open two accounts and play the same table because of the online base of sky. Not good enough for a site which, it seems, is trying to become an established site for serious players.